Slobodan Prosperov Novak (born 11 April 1951[1]), is a Croatian literature historian, comparativist and theatrologist.
He graduated comparative literature in 1973 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, receiving his M.A.
[2] In the period of 1981-1984 he teaches at the Institute for Slavic Philology of the University of Rome, and from 1990 to 1992 he serves as an assistant of the minister of education, culture and sport of the Republic of Croatia.
[1] He edited several books on Croatian writers, authored many literary anthologies, and was the creator of multimedial projects, such as the theater shows Ecce homo[1] and Kako bratja prodaše Jozefa at Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 1995.
He worked on a grand exhibition "Gundulićev san" ("Gundulić's dream") in 1989 in the museum space of the city of Zagreb.
Volite li Dubrovnik, Zagreb,VBZ,2005 (Hrvatsko, englesko i francusko izdanje) Tragedije XVI.
Književnost ranog novovjekovlja u Boki kotorskoj.S Viktorijom Franić Tomić, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb,2014.